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Galileo's World Guide: Medieval Latin West

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Dictionaries & Encyclopedias

Medieval science, technology, and medicine : an encyclopedia by Thomas F. Glick; Steven John Livesey; Steven J. Livesey (Editor); Faith Wallis (Editor); Thomas Glick (Editor)
Publication Date: 2005

Bibliographies

Medieval science and technology : a selected, annotated bibliography

State of the Field

The Cambridge History of Later Medieval Philosophy by Norman Kretzmann (Editor); Anthony Kenny (Editor); Jan Pinborg (Editor); Eleonore Stump (Editor)
ISBN: 9780521369336

Publication Date: 1988-07-29

Available in print and recent online edition.
See "Biographies" for information on medieval authors.
Medieval Science by David C. Lindberg; Michael H. Shank
Publication Date: 2013-10-07

Overviews & Introductory Works

The Beginnings of Western Science by David C. Lindberg
Publication Date: 2008-04-01
The Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages by Edward Grant
Publication Date: 1996
Science in the Middle Ages by David C. Lindberg (Editor)
ISBN: 9780226482330

Publication Date: 1980-03-15
The Scientific Achievement of the Middle Ages by Richard C. Dales

Primary Source Collections - Modern Editions

Medieval Medicine: A Reader by Faith Wallis; Paul Edward Dutton
Publication Date: 2010
Source book of medieval science
This Source Book offers a rare opportunity to explore more than ten centuries of European scientific thought. In it are approximately 190 selections by about 85 authors, most of them from the Latin West.

Periods & Cultures

Science in Medieval Jewish Cultures by Gad Freudenthal (Editor)
Publication Date: 2012-01-23
The Jews and the Sciences in the Middle Ages by Y. Tzvi Langermann
ISBN: 9780860786757

Publication Date: 1999-10-01